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THE BASTARD OF
ISTANBUL
Elif Shafak
Copyright: 2007

Book Jacket:
Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci
lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse,
all the Kazanci men die in their early forties, so it is a house of women,
among them Asya's beautiful, rebellious mother Zeliha, who runs a tattoo
parlour; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as a clairvoyant; and Feride, a
hypochondriac obsessed with impending disatstr. And when Asya's
Armenian-American cousin Armanoush comes to stay, long-hidden family secrets
connected with Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge.

Elif Shafak is one of Turkey's
most acclaimed and outspoken novelists. She was born in 1971 and is the author
of six novels, most recently The Saint of Incipient Insanities, The Gaze and The
Flea Palace, and one work of non-fiction. She teaches at the University of
Arizona and divides her time between the US and Istanbul.

TO EYUP and I)EHRAZAT ZELDA
Once there was; once there
wasn't.
God's creatures were as plentiful
as grains And talking too much was a sin....

-The preamble to a Turkish tale
... and to an Armenian one
ONE
Cinnamon
W
hatever falls from the sky
above, thou shall not curse it. That includes the rain.
No matter what might pour
down, no matter how heavy the cloudburst or how icy the sleet, you should never
ever utter profanities against whatever the heavens might have in store for us.
Everybody knows this. And that includes Zeliha.
Yet, there she was on this
first Friday ofJuly, walking on a sidewalk that flowed next to hopelessly
clogged traffic; rushing to an appointment she was now late for, swearing like
a trooper, hissing one profanity after another at the broken pavement stones,
at her high heels, at the man stalking her, at each and every driver who honked
frantically when it was an urban fact that clamor had no effect on unclogging
traffic, at the whole Ottoman dynasty for once upon a time conquering the city
of Constantinople, and then sticking by its mistake, and yes, at the rain ...
this damn summer rain.
Rain is an agony here. In
other parts of the world, a downpour will in all likelihood come as a boon for
nearly everyone and
I
ELIF SHAFAK
everything-good for the crops,
good for the fauna and the flora, and with an extra splash of romanticism, good
for lovers. Not so in Istanbul though. Rain, for us, isn't necessarily about
getting wet. It's not about getting dirty even. If anything, it's about getting
angry. It's mud and ............

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